Pomp and Circumstantial Evidence

John H. Richardson over at Esquire reports on the comedy, pageantry and tragedy of Ron Paul's Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology.

So there you have the national debate a nutshell: The Republicans offer folk wisdom, fringe economics, and a continued obsession, two decades after the collapse of communism, with central planning; the Democrats come with statistics and studies but have become too demoralized and feckless to do much more than invoke Milton Friedman. Then a handful of overworked reporters ask a tiny handful of timid questions and rush off to file superficial stories that everyone ignores, leaving Paul to a line of fans led by a white Rasta with a small pamphlet in his hand: 'Will you sign my Constitution, since you're the only one that follows it?'

The government we deserve...